LATE LOCALS.

Hokitika Guardian, 6 March 1931, Page 5

LATE LOCALS.

Mr J. Emsworth, representing Humphrey Bishop Coy., was in town to-day making arrangements for the return visit of the Company on March 18th.

'•.Each occupied bed in the Wellington Hospital cost £lB more in maintenance in 1930 than it did in 1927,” said Dr R. Campbell Begg when addressing the Wellington Civic League.

‘ Did you ever catch your wife by tlie throat ?” asked counsel in the Police Court. Witness (with a smile): “No, but she always had a horrible fear that 1 would.”

Applying in the Police Court. Wellington. for maintenance and separation orders u young married woman told the magistrate thn*. although she had no children, she found it impossible to keep a home on £4 10s a week. Counsel: “You say you can’t manage on £4 10s?” Witness: “Ye,s.’> Mr T. B. McNeil, S.M.: “You realise ITTere must be hundreds of people in Wellington to-day doing that'” Witness said she did. but added that in her opinion they simply existed.

The exquisite quality ot the pictures imported by Mr J. L. A\ . Hughes, the local artist, is well-known, Air llugnes will not be continuing his Revel] Street business much longer and he is now offering, for one week only, the whole of his stock at very greatly reduced prices in order to clear. Tt is a. splendid opportunity or acquiring works of the highest class at extremely low prices. The collection includes reproduction of some of the masterpieces of Rembrandt. Durer. Titian, Andrea del Sarto etc; and it was of their identical reproductions that Sir Cosmo .Monkhouse, the noted art-critic wrote: “They are not only reproductions of masterpieces, they are also masterpieces of reproduction.” The collection includes a few choice etchings.—Advfc,